Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles Ginex, Fiocchi, ZSR primers

School me on these brands.
Came across some primers while looking.
Besides Fiocchi, I’ve never heard of the other two.
With crazy times, looking to stock up a bit, but don’t want to waste money either.
I see these are made in Europe or there about. All the primers should be SAAMI spec?
Thanks

I've used some Ginex, and they all went bang. Just as they were supposed to do.

Still have Fiocchi LR primers that I got circa 2014 when I was stocking up. Don't use them exclusively because I have other loads that use different primers that I still have plenty of. I usually don't substitute primers unless I have to, and I haven't had to yet. But my Fiocchi's have all worked in stuff like 7.62x54R, 8x57, and a couple others, but I've never done a comparison test with the same load using 2 different primers. Ginex and ZSR primers are a couple brands that I've never even heard of.

I was given about a zillion ginex primers. They're all uniform and going bang.

Fiocchi is the world's oldest ammunition manufacturer.

I have some Unis Ginex SR primers and they work just fine. They are in the tight side. Haven't tried the others as I haven't seen them either, but Fiocchi is supposed to work well.

Ifni remember correctly, Ginwx is a Swiss company known for very good 5.56 ammo. Never heard of the other company.

Ginex is from Bosnia-Herzegovina. Kinda where part of Yugoslavia used to be. I snagged a case of their LR right before the coof hit in 2020. They are a very tight fit in used brass having to lean heavily on the lever of an RCBS bench priming tool. I wont even try to use them in new brass. For the harry of it, I measured a bunch of primers to 4 decimal places, but cant find the data right now. From memory... they are slightly on the larger side, but so were some older nickle plated WW WLRs. I've tried some in tired brass with enlarged pockets & they were a fairly loose fit too. I think the thickness of the primer cup may be the real culprit for the seating difficulty.

It says NATO spec on the box. Whatever than means exactly isn't specified. All went bang without a hitch so far. ES was within reason even on the ones that were flattened severely while seating. No weird pressure spikes, or anything else out of the ordinary, were noted. Better than a sharp stick in the eye, but only marginally useful to me as long as there are other suitable primers on the shelf.

Oh... & why would European primers be made to SAMMI spec? The Europeans have CIP.

I was asking because I don’t know.
Especially if there are tolerance differences and possibly not fit?
Just like you stated how tight they can be and won’t use them on new brass.

Thanks for the replies